What Users Really Think About Tumblr: Social Media & Art

Excessive and intrusive ads affecting user experience.

"Ads auto-click and pop open every few posts."

"The newest update makes it nearly impossible to scroll your dash without opening a browser tab."

I love this app and I’ve been a longtime user but yall changed the reblog feature after so many years, we have muscle memory and it’s weird now. Bring that back. It sucks

I love tumblr, it’s such a nice place for reads and my fanfics but why are there so many AI ads. It’s so disappointing.

The app overall has been much better and I appreciate that but for two things My top posts disappeared randomly Please restore and the gambling ads are too much I don’t gamble Please get rid of them Thank you

Hey so I mostly like Tumblr. I appreciate the tagging system. The algorithm isn’t super addicting so I don’t doomscroll. I love being able to reblog things. My big issue though is that the ads are so broken. If your finger even slightly touches the ad while scrolling, suddenly it sends you to the we...

I love this app, it’s basically my house. They are trying to slowly make it unusable. The ads no longer autoplay music for me, but I know it happens to a few of my mutuals.

largely enjoyable, the search feature never ever quite works well but you deal with it. the problem is that due to the layoffs they’ve done there is essentially a barebones team that cannot handle or address any of the support ticket issues their userbase likely experience. My account was terminated...

sometimes when i’m mindlessly scrolling it’ll scroll past an ad and like the add opens way too easily they’re way more sensitive to reaction than anything else in the app it seems by-design

I love this app hands down and will continue to use it until it breaks. However I do want to mention a slight issue that’s been happening for the past almost 2 or 3 years now. I constantly have to like post that I can’t read in the moment and come back to because if I try and read it and go to anoth...